IEEEBos November 2017 Digital Reflector

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial: “Lennart, “Down Under” - A Report from Sections Congress 2017”, by Fausto Molinet, Publications Committee Chair and Len Long, Boston Section Chair ...........................................................................Page 3 Call for Articles ................................................. Page 5

2017 IEEE/MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference .................................. Page 30 Embedded Linux Optimization: Tools and Techniques (online course) .............................................. Page 31

Reliability Society ............................................ Page 6

Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers (online course) ...................... Page 34

IEEE Boston Section Online Course Listing ..... Page 8

Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Electromagnetics (online course) ................ Page 35

Entrepreneurs’ Network .................................... Page 9 Photonics, Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Electron Devices, and Geoscience & Remote Sensing Societies.......................................................... Page 12 Life Members (Boston and New Hampshire) . Page 14 Electromagnetic Compatability Society .......... Page 15 Computer Society ........................................... Page 16

Reliability Engineering for the Business World (online course) .............................................. Page 36 Introduction to Embedded Linux (online course) ........ ........................................................................ Page 37 Radar Basics and Amazing Advances ............ Page 39 (Last Notice, Please Register Now!!)

Practical RF PCB Design: Wirless Networks, Products and Telecommunications ................................ Page 42

Entrepreneurs’ Network .................................. Page 18 Consultants’ Network ...................................... Page 20 Determining and Communicating Project Value Return on Investment (ROI) ....................................... Page 21

Call for Course Speakers and Organizers ...... Page 43 2018 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) ..................................... Page 44 Advanced Embedded Linux Optimization ..... Page 45

Making You a Leader- Fast Track! .................. Page 23 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security - Call for Papers (Submission Deadline, October 16, 2017) ........................ Page 26 Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers (online course) ..................... Page 27

Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers ............................................. Page 48 Writing Agile User Story and Acceptance Test Requirements ................................................. Page 51 Risk Management Methods for Test Projects . Page 53 Developing Reusable Test Designs ................ Page 55

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Lennart, “Down Under”,

A Report from Sections Congress 2017

by Fausto Molinet and Len Long

This August, our fearless leader (I’ll explain shortly), Section Chair Len Long, travelled down under (to Australia for those who’ve never heard that term before) to attend the triennial IEEE Sections Congress. Section Congress is a rather large event for IEEE and brings together around 1300 members from all 10 regions of IEEE as well as IEEE staff, to discuss how they see the future of our organization and provide suggestions on how to make it better.

You can easily find out a lot about the 2017, and past, Sections Congress. Go to www.ieee.org and search on sections congress.

to industry can be best accomplished through IEEE members who work in a company. These members can help the company understand how it can collaborate with IEEE and the benefits from it.

Some of the other major groups represented were the Young Professionals, Women in Engineering and IEEE Student Members. These groups are also represented in the Boston Section and chaired

by Eric Walk, Nassim Razi and Soon Wan respectively. If you’d like to join them, the links above will take you to some local resources.

Not only Section Industry Ambassadors (Industry Relations officers in other regions), but also Senior members, Young Professionals and Women in Engineering can contribute in industry engagement.

Reaching out to these companies can also be done through the professional networks of IEEE members since they can communicate with one of their connections who works in a company who can then help them interact with key people in the company and establish the relationship between IEEE and the company.

Northeastern University, for example, has established relationships with corporations so that its students could work in them as part of their underRon Tabroff, former Boston Section Chair and now graduate program.

Region 1 Director, led the Northeast delegation that included the chair or a representative from all the I also got to meet many people from all around the sections. Each region was charged with coming up world that had problems and issues similar to those with three issues for the IEEE staff to address that we face in the Boston Section and they all had helpwould benefit members and sections. ful suggestions to move us forward.”

Len reported, “Reaching out to industry was the It wasn’t all work though, Sections Congress is also highlight for me. It featured what has worked so far about having some fun and interacting with other in other regions, especially Region 8. Reaching out “IEEE’ers” on a social level, and Australia is a great

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place to do that with a reputation for friendly people eral other cities. It’s a rich country with very nice and some significantly offbeat experiences avail- people. Jane and I also visited Christchurch, New Zealand - saw the earthquake devastation and had able nowhere else in the world. a meal with a family - visited the cardboard catheRon Tabroff organized several very well-planned dral. It’s beautiful country - many sheep, cattle and events including a Harbour (that’s the way they deer farms. Held a Koala bear, saw Kiwi birds and patted a kangaroo. Visited wineries and an olive oil spell it) cruise. manufacturing plant. Then we travelled to Fiji and Len participated in a climb of Sydney Harbor enjoyed a resort there. In all three countries, we Bridge, a structured (excuse the pun) experience visited villages of indigenous people. The weather for those with no fear of heights. Len says, “Jane was fine and the food was delicious. Enjoyed speand I also visited Cairns and snorkeled in the Great cialty of meat pies.”

Barrier Reef, went to Alice Springs, site of the first intercontinental telegraph station, rode a camel, Welcome back Len. We look forward to getting visited Flying Doctors and School of the Air as well more details on recommendations and solutions as Ayers Rock in the Australian Outback. In Syd- and how we can apply them to make our section ney, we went to the Chinese Garden and the Rock, the most vibrant and effective group in IEEE. visited the opera house and then travelled to sev-

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Twice each year a committee of local IEEE volunteers meet to consider course topics for its continuing education program. This committee is comprised of practicing engineers in various technical disciplines.

In an effort to expand these course topics for our members and the local technical community at large, the committee is publicizing this CALL FOR COURSE SPEAKERS AND ORGANIZERS. The Boston Section is one of the largest and most technically divers sections of the IEEE. We have over 20 active chapters and affinity groups.

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Reliability Society – 5:00PM, Thursday, 1 November

Laser Exfoliation Removal of Conformal Coatings Norman Armendariz, Ph.D., Raytheon Engineering Fellow The IEEE Boston Reliability Chapter cordially invites you to attend a joint meeting and plant tour with SMTA Boston Chapter and iMAPs organizations on November 1, 2017.

Laser Exfoliation Removal of Conformal Coatings From CCA PCB Pad Surfaces and Design for Rinsability Circuit Cards Assemblies-CCAs are manufactured to meet Class 3 military-grade requirements –they must work the first time, every time. Certain electronic components from recent production builds were detected with cleaning residue remaining, and it appears that the component housing design is a major factor that determines whether a component entrains & entraps residues. To ensure protection to moisture or extreme environments, the CCA undergoes a conformal coating process on CCA exposed surfaces. Prior to conformal coat, the surface of the CCA is semi aqueous chemically cleanedto provide a surface condition suitable for the coating to properly adhere. However, If the cleaning solutions get entrained / entrapped within the components, residual contamination may cause materials degradation of the components, which may limit the electrical performance of the device. As a result, a study was initiated to understand the susceptibility of entrainment / entrapment of cleaning residues on 28 different components, each with various component cover / attachment constructions and vent open areas.

CCAs-circuit card assemblies for military applications require a high level of performance and reliability, and typically undergo a CC-conformal coating process after SMT-surface mount technology assembly to protect the circuit card and attached

electrical components from exposure to moisture and harsh environments. However, certain areas of the CCA or PCB-printed circuit board metallized surfaces are desired to be free of conformal coating and are required to be clean, solderable and electrically / thermally conductive. Current conformal coating de-masking processes are time consuming and labor intensive. A more cost effective and automated laser-aided exfoliation method was evaluated and successfully demonstrated to remove parylene C conformal coatings from ENIGplated Cu pads. The parylene was removed within a precise pad area, and tested to be solderable to enable subsequent wire-soldering and consistent sealant coverage in a cost-effective manner. This paper will discuss the “physics” of laser ablation, laser exfoliation, materials interactions, test and characterization methods used to evaluate and validate the laser-aided removal processes on actual production CCA product.

Norman Armendiraz, Ph.D. of Raytheon Company Dr. Armendariz is an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon responsible for materials engineering design, materials analysis, process equipment development, and production support associated with the manufacturing of CCA- circuit card assemblies used in missiles, smart munitions, ground based radars, and mobile sensors across multiple US and international sites. Norm has over 20 years of industrial experience, having worked for Lockheed/ NASA, Motorola, TI and Intel, and as Director of Labs / Asst. Engr. Prof. at American University. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Chemical Engr. from New Mexico State University, MS in Materials Science Engr. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and BS Metallurgical Engr. from Colorado State University, with 9 US patents and 27 peer-reviewed publications.

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7:25 PM Laser Exfoliation Removal of Conformal Registration/Arrival Details: (US Citizens Only) * Pre-registration is required, walk-ins will not be Coatings From CCA PCB Pad Surfaces, Norman Armendariz, Ph.D., Engineering Fellow able to pass the guard at the gate. * Raytheon is a secure facility – escort is required 8:30 PM Q&A and Adjourn at all times while on the premises Meeting Location: Raytheon Company, 350 Lowell * YOU MUST bring proof of US Citizenship to avoid Street, Andover, Massachusetts any entry issues. this can be a valid driver’s license, passport, or government issued photo ID. * You will need to provide first, middle and last name along with company affiliation during registration * Head count limit is 60, first come first serve, please register early. * You must register with online RSVP to get on the attendee list! or copy this url to your browser https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47564 Cost: * SMTA, iMAPS & IEEE Members who RSVP in advance: $20 * Non-Members: $25 * Cost includes: Dinner, tour, networking and presentations

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Agenda: 5:00 PM Attendee Registration 5:15 PM Raytheon Facility tours 6:00 PM Dinner in Raytheon, Andover Cafeteria 7:00 PM Boston Chapter Welcome -- SMTA Chapter President Michael Jansen 7:10 PM Raytheon Welcome

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IEEE Boston Section Online Courses:

(Students have 90 day access to all online, self-paced courses) Verilog101:Verilog Foundations

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System Verilog 101: Design Constructs

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High Performance Project Management

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Introduction to Embedded Linux Part I

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Embedded Linux Optimization - Tools and Techniques

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Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers

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Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Electromagnetics

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Reliability Engineering for the Business World

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Entrepreneurs’ Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 7 November

FROM ZERO TO FUNDED: What do you need to get seed / angel investment Meeting location – Constant Contact, 1601 Trapelo Road, 3rd Floor, Great Room, Waltham, MA. PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham.

6:30-7:30 PM - Registration & networking 7:30-7:40 PM - ENET Chairman’s announcements 7:40-7:55 PM - E Minute - Up to 3 Startup companies’ presentations 7:55-8:45 PM - 3 expert speakers on the night’s topic 8:45-9:00 PM - Audience / Speakers Q & A 9:00-9:30 PM - Final networking includes meeting presenting speakers

Entrepreneurs and the businesses they are starting have evolved. Start-ups today don’t need to build a manufacturing plant to start a business. They need less money to build a product prototype, prove that it works, prove there is a market for their product and show a potentially profitable business model A question and answer session follows the presenbefore scaling the business. tation, and panelists will be available afterwards for responses to individual questions. As with every What will make the lives of entrepreneurs seeking ENET meeting you will also get the chance to netfunding easier? work with the panelists and other meeting attendAn angel investor who understands the experimen- ees, both before the start of the meeting and aftertal nature of the idea, believes in the business fo- wards cus, the model, the team to execute the plan and pivot where needed and an entrepreneur to focus Speakers: on building an organization in today’s environment GRAHAM BROOKS, Partner, .406 addressing a real customer need in a market of deVentures - joined .406 Ventures in cent size while carrying out the business vision.

2007 after nine years of technology-oriented operating, investing Whether you’re a businessperson with a great conand start-up experience and has cept or an entrepreneur getting ready to raise seed been a Partner at .406 Ventures, investment for your company, from Zero to Funded LLC since September 2014. Grawill offer you the following: ham specializes in building early How to create an investor-friendly financial model stage companies and loves workfor your business ing with both experienced and first-time entrepreAngel investor vs a VC, the differences and merits neurs helping them to grow their visions in industry What goes on behind the scenes when angel, seed changing companies; go-to-market development or VC investors and execution, sales team structure and early Contemplate whether or not to fund a venture company strategy. He is a member of the Board How to work with your investors and what to expect of Directors of Bedrock Data, Connotate, Attend. after they invest com, CoPatient, Inc. and Board observer to other companies. He is also a member of the Board of Agenda: Directors of the MIT enterprise Forum. He holds

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degrees from Princeton and the Dartmouth Tuck search and is a reviewer for the Wound Healing School. #BigData, #HealthIT,#DigitalVideo and Society (WHS), Wounds International, Tissue En#AdTech gineering, CIMIT, MassVentures, MIT, WPI, Tech Sandbox, Piranha Pond, SBANE and the VenLISA FRUSZTAJER, Product ture Forum. He holds an MS and PhD from WPI Marketing & Project Manage- in molecular biology and biomedical sciences with ment, Avid Technology - has nav- 2 Postdocs at the Whitehead Institute/ MIT in bioigated all ends of the technology chemistry and pathogen genetics. Mitch is also an world over the last twenty years, AALAS certified Laboratory Animal Technician and first working at Sun Microsys- has over 30 year of expertise in performing pretems, then helping grow a small clinical wound healing and surgical models at ECI software startup called KYOS, Biotech, Boston University, and UMASS Medical then joining Avid Technology. School.

Lisa currently focuses on angel investing, consulting projects, and running a real estate management Moderator: company. Lisa’s background is an eclectic blend of HOWARD SHOLKIN, Principal, marketing, engineering and project management, Sholkin Consulting - has more in technology, manufacturing, higher education than 40 years of journalism and and financial services. She is a lead investor of the marketing communication experiPortfolia Enterprise Fund, which combines invesence. In 2014, he formed Sholkin tor education with immediate diversification across Consulting to deliver strategy and early stage companies. She serves on the Board tactical marketing services to influof Trustees at a secondary school and has been a ence an organization’s prospects, board member of other education-focused nonprofgrow its business, and elevate its. Lisa was educated at the University of Chicago, a firm’s brand and its products and services. He the London School of Economics, and Columbia joined International Data Group (IDG)—the world’s Business School leading technology media, event, and research company--as director of corporate communicaMITCHELL SANDERS, PhD, tions in 2003 providing PR support for Founder and Managing Director Innova- Chairman Pat McGovern and subsidiaries. Sholkin tion and Board Member, Alira was later promoted to a director’s position for comHealth – is a serial entrepre- munication and marketing programs for the CEO of neur with more than 30 years IDG Communications, the media and events subpreclinical animal models and sidiary, and for the CEO of IDG Global Solutions. clinical product development in advanced wound care. He se- Organizer: cured an aggregate of $35M in ROBERT ADELSON, business development funding, and grants for Alira Health and tax attorney, partner at Boston law firm of Engel & Schultz and ECI Biotech. In 2015 Mitch joined Alira Health LLP, and Chairman of The Boston full time to help expand their newly formed and Entrepreneurs’ Network. Rob has rapidly growing Global Medical Affairs Division and been an attorney for over 30 years was promoted to Managing Director of Drug and specialized in business, tax, stock Device Discovery Lab (3DL) now rebranded as the and options, employment, conInnovation Services Division. tracts, financings, trademarks and Mitch is an expert in clinical and translational re-

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intellectual property. Rob began as an associate at major New York City law firms before returning home to Boston in 1985 where he has since been a partner in small and medium sized firms before joining his present firm in 2004. Rob represents entrepreneurs, start-ups and small companies, independent contractors and employees and executives. Rob is a frequent speaker on business law topics and author of numerous articles published in Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech and other publications. He has been named among the “Top 20 Boston Startup Lawyers” by ChubbyBrain. com, a website that provides tools for entrepreneurs.

LL.M. in Taxation. His website www.ExecutiveEmploymentAttorney.com

Rob has been on the ENET Board since 2002 and Chairman since 2009 and is also a Co-Founder and Board member of the 128 Innovation Capital Group (2004 -2015). In 2016, he received the IEEE USA Professional Achievement award for “extreme dedication to the entrepreneurship community.”

He holds degrees from Boston University, B.A., summa cum laude, Northwestern University (Chicago), J.D., Law Review, and New York University,

Reservations: ENET Constant Contact meetings are free to ENET members and $20 for non-members. No reservations are needed for the pre-meeting dinner. To expedite sign-in for the meeting, we ask that everyone -- members as well as non-members -- pre-register for the online. Pre-registration is available until midnight the day before the meeting.

If you cannot pre-register, you are welcome to register at the door.

E-Minute Presentations will be given at the start of the meeting. These very short presentations enable young startup entrepreneurs to gain experience in presenting their summary business plans to expert panels and audiences.

Directions: Constant Contact is adjacent to RT 128 / 95 at Exit 28B. See: http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/office-location-waltham.jsp

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Photonics, Aerospace and Electronics Systems, Electron Devices, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Societies 7:00PM Thursday, 9 November

Metamaterial Advances for Radar and Communication Dr. Eli Brookner, Raytheon Company. (Retired) This talk will be given in tutorial form so that those not familiar with metamaterais can understand it. All that is needed is a first two years of under graduate engineering. What is metamatamaterials will be explained in simple terms followed by its advances. Metamaterial antennas have progressed considerably in the last few years. Kymeta had demonstrated December 2014 the transmission to satellites and back at K-band using metamamaterial antennas which employed metamaterial resonators to control the electronic beam steering. No phase shifters were used. A clear explanation of how this antenna works is given. Kymeta expects to have its Ku-band metamaterial antenna commercially available in 2017. First use is planned at K-band (10-15 GHz) on vessels anywhere in the world for high speed internet using satellites. PARC, a Xerox . Co., has developed a metamaterial antenna 2.4 GHz for use in cell towers. They plan to also use a higher frequency version for self driving cars employing artificial intelligence (AI). (The metamaterial group of PARC has recently been spun off as Metawave.) Echodyne has

developed metamaterial arrays for radar. The Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi MD has funded the development of a metamaterial 250-505 MHZ antenna with a ď Ź/20 thickness.

Complementing this a conventional tightly coupled dipole antenna (TCDA) has been developed which provides a 20:1 bandwidth with a ď Ź/40 thickness. Target cloaking has been demonstrated at microwaves over a narrow band using metamaterials. With cloaking the

electromagnetic wave signal transmitted by a radar goes around the target making it invisible. Thus we could get the Invisible Man. Cloaking has also been demonstrated at L-band with a 50% bandwidth using fractals. It has also been demonstrated for a flat plate at normal incidence using fractals. Stealthing by absorption using a thin flexible and stretchable metamaterials sheet has been demonstrated to give 6 dB absorption over the band from 8-10 GHz, larger absorption over a narrower band. Using fractals material < 1 mm thick simulation gave a 10 dB reduction in backscatter from 2 to 20 GHz, ~20 dB reduction from 9 to 15 GHz. Good results were obtained for all incidence angles for V and H polarizations. Cloaking is being worked on at MIT for stealthing against sonar signals. Using metamaterial

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one can focus 6X beyond diffraction limit at 0.38 μm (Moore’s Law marches on); 40X diffraction limit, λ/80, at 375 MHz. Has been used in cell phones to provide antennas 5X smaller (1/10th ) having 700 MHz-2.7 GHz bandwidth. Provided isolation between antennas having 2.5 cm separation equivalent to 1m separation.

Used for phased array wide angle impedance matching (WAIM). It has been found that n-doped graphene has a negative index of refraction. Metamaterials not new, Marconi had a 1919 patent using it and the ancient cathedrals used it with nanoparticles to get the brilliant colors in their windows. Amazing.

Dr. Eli Brookner: MEE & DrSc Columbia Un ’55 &’62; White Award; IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award, 2017; Journal of Franklin Institute Premium Award best paper, 1966; IEEE Wheeler Prize for Best Applications Paper, 1998. Fellow: IEEE, AIAA, & MSS. 4 books: Tracking, Phased Arrays & Radar.

BEE CCNY, ’53. Raytheon 1962-2014 (retired) ; Principal Engineering Fellow; worked on radars for air traffic control, military defense, space & navigation: on ASDE-X, ASTOR RADARSAT II, AGBR, major Space Based Radar programs, NAVSPASUR, COBRA DANE, PAVE PAWS, MSR, COBRA JUDY Replacement, THAAD, SIVAM, SPY-3, Patriot, BMEWS, UEWR, SRP, Pathfinder, Upgrade for >70 ARSRs, AMDR, Space Fence, 3DELRR. Before Raytheon: Columbia Un Electronics Research Lab. [now RRI], Nicolet, & Rome AF Lab; Awards: IEEE 2006 Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technology & Application; IEEE ’03 Warren

>10,000 attended courses in 25 countries. Banquet & keynote speaker 13 times. > 230 publications. > 100 invited. 6 papers in Books of Reprints. 9 patent.

Meeting Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 244 Wood Street, Cafeteria.

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Life Members & New Hampshire Life Members - 4:00PM, Wednesday, 15 November

Climate Change: Are We Losing the Carbon-Free Energy Market to China?

By Paul H. Carr, PhD, IEEE Life Fellow

Refreshments 3:30PM Meeting Location: Lincoln Lab Cafeteria, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA 02421 The global carbon-free energy market, valued at $6 trillion, is increasing exponentially. This is because emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations 35% higher than in the last millions of years.

These emissions are warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect and increasing weather extremes, like higher intensity hurricanes.

23 nuclear plants under construction and 33 planned.

Bill Gates’ TerraPower nuclear pilot plant is being built in China with the Chinese National Nuclear Corp. This traveling wave reactor converts depleted uranium, a byproduct of the nuclear-fission process, into usable fuel, solving the nuclear waste storage problem.

Biographical Sketch of Paul H. Carr: BS MIT, PhD Brandeis U, IEEE Life Fellow. From 1967 to 1995, he led the Component Technology Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Bedford, MA. His branch developed the surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology used in compact, signal-processing filters for radar, cell phones, and TV. Two former branch member were Dr. Ken Laker and Dr. Tom Szabo. Ken Laker in 1999 was In 1995, the US had 43% of the solar manufacturing elected president of the IEEE. Tom Szabo’s Diagnostic market compared to China at 1%. Now the US mar- Ultrasound Imaging: Inside Out (2003) has been cited ket share has declined to 10%, as compared to China’s over 1000 times. After Dr. Carr’s retirement from AFRL, 30%. China now dominates wind turbines with 27% of he taught philosophy courses at U Mass Lowell that inthe market share with the US at 9%. Although China is spired his book, Beauty in Science & Spirit (2006). the world’s largest carbon emitter, the per capita emissions of the US are the biggest, twice those of China He published “Weather extremes from anthropogenic and Europe. global warming” in Natural Science, Jan 2013 and participated in an IEEE Climate Discussion/Debate on Solar energy is available only 26% of the time and wind NewTV in August 2014. He championed the www.iras.

33%. Nuclear is 24/7. The energy returned divided by org conference on climate change on Star Island off the energy invested (EROI) in manufacturing and con- Portsmouth, NH in June 2017. struction for nuclear plants is 47 times that of solar and His web page: www.MirrorOfNature.org 19 times that of wind.

The meeting will be held at the Lincoln Lab Main CafeFear of nuclear reactors is hurting our environment. teria, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA at 4:00 PM. We are decommissioning them faster than the increase in wind and solar. To make up for this net decrease, we Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM. Please use are increasing our burning of fossil fuels, raising carbon the Wood Street Gate.

For directions go to http://www.ll.mit.edu/ dioxide emissions which are warming our planet.

Westinghouse’s nuclear reactors being built in S. Car- For other information, contact Paul H. Carr, 603 413 olina and in Georgia have gone bankrupt. China has 6566

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Electromagnetic Compatibility Society â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6:00PM, Thursday, 16 November

Insights into EMC Chamber Designs: How to Achieve an Optimized Chamber for Accurate EMC Measurements Dr. Zubiao Xiong, RF Engineer, ETS-Lindgren, Cedar Park, Texas IEEE Boston EMC Chapter is pleased to present a Hands-On Seminar on EMC Chamber Design Insights into EMC Chamber Design: How to Achieve an Optimized Chamber For Accurate EMC Measurements

Time: 6:00PM: Complimentary Dinner 6:45PM Presentation on EMC Chamber Design 7:45PM: Demonstration of the Time Domain Measurement Technique per ANSI C63.25 for Test Site Validation and Diagnostics (see technical program and speaker bio below) 8:15PM: Adjourn/Optional NTS Lab Tour Location: NTS, 1146 Massachusetts Ave., Boxborough, MA 01719 Onsite Contact: Clayton Forbes, NTS Operations Manager, 978-266-1001 Register: Click here to register on line.

Please register no later than Friday, November 10 in order to ensure adequate seating and catering.

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Abstract: This presentation will provide background information to consider when determining the optimal chamber design for

varied applications. Since chambers involve a considerable investment, taking the time up front to weigh options for the best design is very cost-effective in the long run. Topics presentated include a review of EMC standards since the first task is generally to identify which standards the chamber will be used to test in accordance with. General design guidelines, performance simulation ability and accuracy, and optimizing a design for a limited space will be reviewed. Finally, with existing chambers, guidelines will be provided for those considering retrofitting a chamber with new absorber.

Troubleshooting tips will also be provided should an existing chamber fail to meet performance expectations.

Demonstration Overview: A demonstration of the time domain measurement technique per the draft ANSI Standard C63.25 in a 3 meter semi-anechoic EMC chamber will follow the presentation. The live demonstration shows the effectiveness of the measurement process, the data post-processing, and analysis of the results. Time domain site VSWR is post-processed through statistical techniques, and data is shown to correlate to the CISPR method. Attendees will see how time domain measurements provide an efficient and cost effective way to validate chamber performance as well as indicate precisely where a chamber may have problems meeting performance expectations.

Dr. Zubiao Xiong is an RF engineer with ETS-Lindgren, located in Cedar Park, Texas. He obtained his B.Eng. and Ph.D. (both degrees in Electronic Information Engineering) from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2003 and 2009, respectively.

After that, he joined the University of Houston as a research fellow, focusing on the research of computational electromagnetics and its applications in biomedical engineering and electromagnetic compatibility. He developed the simulation software for predicting and

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analyzing the performance of anechoic chambers, and then joined ETS-Lindgren in September 2016. Dr. Zubiao Xiong is an active member of the working group addressing IEEE-STD-1128 on RF Absorber Evaluation. His current research interests include EMC and

microwave chamber design, novel RF absorber material development, and time domain measurements for site validation and antenna calibration. He may be reached at zubiao.xiong@ets-lindgren.com.

Computer Society and GBC/ACM – 7:00PM, Thursday, 16 November

It’s Time for a New Old Language Guy L. Steele Jr., Oracle Labs The most popular programming language in computer science has no compiler, interpreter, or complete specification. It is remarkably concise. It grew over decades; today, dozens of variations are in use. Its complexity has reached the point where it needs to be re-explained every time it is used, but too often it is not; instead, each variant is more or less taken for granted. This has led to ambiguities and inconsistencies. Much effort has been spent in hand-translating, in both directions, between this language and other languages that do have compilers, primarily for the purpose of implementing yet other languages. The language could well describe parallel computation, but this fact has gone unexploited. In this talk we will summarize the history of the language, highlight variations and problems that have arisen, and propose specific solutions. It is high time that this language be taken seriously, so that all the best tools and techniques of our trade may be applied to it also.

Guy Steele is a Software Architect for Oracle Labs and Principal Investigator of the Programming Language Research Group. His research interests include programming language design and implementation, algorithms, compiler design, distributed systems, functional programming, object-oriented

programming, automatic storage management (including garbage collection), floating-point arithmetic, interval arithmetic, hardware/software codesign, parallel algorithms, parallel computer architectures, and pseudorandom number generation.

He received his A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College (1975), and his S.M. and Ph.D. in computer science and artificial intelligence from MIT (1977 and 1980). Prior to becoming a member of Oracle Labs, he was an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University; a member of technical staff at Tartan Laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; a senior scientist at Thinking Machines Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a Distinguished Engineer and then a Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

He is author or co-author of five books: Common Lisp: The Language (Digital Press, first ed. 1984, second ed. 1990); C: A Reference Manual (Prentice-Hall, first ed. 1984, fifth ed. 2002); The Hacker’s Dictionary (Harper&Row, 1983), which has been revised as The New Hacker’s Dictionary, edited by Eric Raymond with introduction and illustrations by Guy Steele (MIT Press, first ed. 1992, third ed. 1996); The High Performance Fortran Handbook (MIT Press, 1994); and The Java Language Specification (Addison-Wesley, first ed. 1996, second ed. 2000, third ed. 2005; Java SE 7 ed. 2013;

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Java SE 8 ed. 2014). All are still in print. He has been praised for an especially clear and thorough writing style in explaining the details of programming languages.

He has published more than two dozen papers on the subject of the Lisp language and Lisp implementation, including a series with Gerald Jay Sussman that defined the Scheme dialect of Lisp.

One of these, “Multiprocessing Compactifying Garbage Collection,” won first place in the ACM 1975 George E. Forsythe Student Paper Competition.

Other papers published in CACM are “Design of a LISP-Based Microprocessor” with Gerald Jay Sussman (November 1980) and “Data Parallel Algorithms” with W. Daniel Hillis (December 1986); the latter has been cited over 1100 times. He has also published papers on many other subjects, including compilers, parallel processing, constraint languages, and pseudorandom number generation. One song he composed has been published in CACM (“The Telnet Song”, April 1984).

guage, IEEE Std 1178-1990. He was a representative to the High Performance Fortran Forum, which produced the High Performance Fortran specification in May, 1993. At Thinking Machines Corporation he co-developed the languages Connection Machine Lisp, C*, and Connection Machine Fortran. At Sun Microsystems (and now at Oracle) he has advised the evolution of the Java programming language; he also led the design of Fortress, an object-oriented mathematical language intended to support high-performance computing. He designed the original EMACS command set and was the first person to port TeX. He has served on Ph.D. thesis committees for twelve students. He has served as program chair for the 1984 ACM Lisp Conference and for the 15th ACM POPL conference (1988) and 23rd ACM POPL conference (1996); he has also served on program committees for more than 30 other conferences.

At Oracle Labs he is responsible for research in He has been given the ACM Grace Murray Hopper language design and implementation strategies, Award (1988), the ACM SIGPLAN Programming and architectural and software support for proLanguages Achievement Award (1996), the Dr. gramming languages.

Dobb’s Journal Excellence in Programming Award (2005), and the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the (2007). He led the team that received a 1990 Gor- IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be held don Bell Prize honorable mention for achieving the in MIT Room 32-G449 (the Kiva conference room fastest speed to that date for a production applica- on the 4th floor of the Stata Center, buildng 32 on tion: 14.182 Gigaflops. He is a AAAI Fellow (1990), MIT maps) . You can see it on this map of the MIT ACM Fellow (1994), Member of the National Acad- campus. emy of Engineering of the United States of America (2001). Fellow of the American Academy of Arts Up-to-date information about this and other talks and Sciences (2002), and IEEE Fellow (2011). is available online at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/ computer/. You can sign up to receive updated staHe has served on accredited standards committees tus information about this talk and informational X3J11 (C language) and X3J3 (Fortran), and served emails about future talks at as chairman of X3J13 (Common Lisp). He was also http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, a member of the IEEE committee that produced the our self-administered mailing list.

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Entrepreneurs’ Network, Cambridge Meeting, 6:00PM, Tuesday, 21 November

What are the Elements of Value that Attract Investment?

EMAIL AND DIGITAL MARKETING FOR EARLY STAGE COMPANIES

Meeting location: Pivotal Labs, 255 Main St., 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA For early stage companies constrained by small budgets and limited resources, digital marketing promises to produce fast and impressive results.

With a myriad of techniques and platforms available in the marketplace, it is crucial to make the right choices and execute optimally for the best ROI. This session will bring together experts with extensive experience advising and executing B2C and B2B digital marketing campaigns and strategies for businesses from startups to Fortune 10 companies.

Join us to learn how informed and effective use of digital marketing can provide the promotion and prospects to build your startup!

+ associates (http://www.revenueassociates.biz/) Louis Gudema helps companies significantly increase their revenue through measurable improvements in sales and marketing through his firm, revenue + associates. Previously, he created award-winning internet marketing agency Magic Hour Communications, oversaw the development of its MagicWand Web CMS, and built Magic Hour into one of the top three or four companies in its national Web SaaS market. He mentors startups at MIT and has worked with companies from startups to the Fortune 10. His clients have included IBM, EMC, PTC, Cognos, Endeca, SpeechWorks, ViziApps, and Groton School.

Louis developed the Bullseye Marketing FrameAGENDA: work. He has written on marketing for many lead6:00 -7:00 pm – Networking ing business blogs including the Harvard Business 7:00 -7:10 pm - Announcements Review, HubSpot, MarketingProfs, IDG Connect 7:10 -7:25 pm - E Minute - Up to 3 Startup compa- Marketer, TechTarget, and many others. He speaks nies’ presentations frequently at regional and national conferences and 7:25 -8:15 pm - Three expert speakers on the has been interviewed on many national podcasts. night’s topic He is LinkedIn member 58,795 (out of over 500 mil8:15 -8:30 pm - Q & A lion), and also active on Facebook and Twitter.

8:30 -9:00 pm - Networking including meeting speakers TARA GRECO Marketing evangelist, angel investor.

Below please meet the panel of accomplished exTara is a marketing evangelist ecutives and experts our moderator and meeting and angel investor in start-ups inorganizers: cluding medtech, biotech, edtech, CPG, sustainability and women-led SPEAKERS: startups. She excels at leading orLOUIS GUDEMA Founder and President, revenue ganizations, building brands, min-

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ing research for insights, and developing new platforms as she has for CoSlide, Care Academy, JFK Library Foundation, RoboSail, VoltreePower, Playrific, Bare Tree Media, Turbine (Warner Bros.), TJX, Stride Rite, Atari, Crayola, Mattel, Tyco Toys, and K’NEX. Tara enjoys leading teams and fostering a spirit of excellence. Tara holds an MBA in Marketing from Temple University and a BS in Business from Skidmore College.

KELLEY LYNN KASSA B2B Digital marketing executive Kelley Lynn Kassa is an accomplished marketing executive who has worked with blue chip technology companies, publicly traded midsized organizations, and innovative startups. She focuses on designing and implementing integrated digital campaigns that incorporate both outbound and inbound marketing tactics. Kelley has a passion for optimizing marketing automation platforms and email systems to create effective and engaging email marketing and nurture campaigns. She has extensive experience working with Marketo, Pardot, and HubSpot, along with prior experience with Eloqua and ExactTarget. Kelley combines email campaigns with blog content, keyword-optimized landing pages, engaging fulfillment pieces and targeted call-to-action campaigns for maximum results. Kelley has a B.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University.

Moderator MILLIE KWAN, President, The WSI Touch (https://thewsitouch.com) Millie is Founder and President of The WSI Touch, a digital marketing agency that has been serving small to medium-sized businesses in Greater Boston since 2009. She has over 20 years’ experience in IT development, management, education and research. She received her Doctor of Business Administration degree from Boston University and M.S. in Computer Science

from Washington University in St Louis. She has taught at Babson College, University of Hong Kong and Boston University and published research on knowledge management, process redesign and workflow management. In her early career, she specialized in library automation and has led the implementation of various library systems for the University of Rhode Island, the HELIN Library Consortium of Rhode Island, and Washington University in St Louis. Millie is also a Vice Chair of ENET. Organizer: HOWARD SHOLKIN, Principal, Sholkin Consulting Howard has more than 40 years of journalism and marketing communication experience. In 2014, he formed Sholkin Consulting to deliver strategy and tactical marketing services to influence an organization’s prospects, grow its business, and elevate a firm’s brand and its products and services. He joined International Data Group (IDG)—the world’s leading technology media, event, and research company -- as director of corporate communications in 2003 providing PR support for Founder and Chairman Pat McGovern and subsidiaries. Sholkin was later promoted to a director’s position for communication and marketing programs for the CEO of IDG Communications, the media and events subsidiary, and for the CEO of IDG Global Solutions.

FURTHER INFORMATION: E-Minute Presentations will be given at the start of the meeting. These very short presentations enable young startup entrepreneurs to gain experience in presenting their summary business plans to expert panels and audiences.

LOCATION: Pivotal Labs, 255 Main St., 6th FL, Cambridge. This building is in Kendall Square, just a couple doors down from the Cambridge Marriott heading toward Boston.

REFRESHMENTS: Pizza & soft drinks

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COST AND RESERVATIONS: Free to ENET members and $10 for non-members. Members & non -members, pre-register for the meeting online, until midnight the day before the meeting.

Go to – www.boston-enet.org or day of, you are welcome to register and pay at the door.

PARKING: The nearest parking garage is at One Broadway. The fee is $10 after 5pm, you need to be out by 10pm.

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Consultants Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 28 November

2018 Officer Election We are approaching the end of the year and so must elect officers for 2018. On November 28, 6:30 PM, an election will be held at Ken’s Steak House, 95 Worcester Rd. (Route 9), Framingham, MA 01701.

Note that there are 2 positions for which there are no declared candidates. All C-Net members in good standing are eligible to vote or to run for any of these positions, contested or not. Please consider running.

The declared candidates are Chairman: Frederick Beihold Vice-Chairman: Open Treasurer: Charlie Sweet Secretary: Open

The election will be followed by a free dinner where you can socialize with your fellow consultants. This will be our last event of 2017.

Hope to see you there.

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Determining and Communicating Project Value Return on Investment (ROI) ROI Value Modeling TM for Decision Making Communicate Right, Reliable, and Responsible REAL ROI Business Cases Date & Time:

Wednesday, December 12; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (7.5 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Companies are demanding reliable financial measures of proposed projects’ value. Yet, project managers often don’t know how to identify, calculate, or communicate a project’s REAL ROI™ (Return on Investment). Traditional ROI calculations increasingly are being criticized for telling only part of the necessary story. The difficulty afflicts all types of projects but often is greatest in areas like IT, where benefits may seem intangible and frequent overruns impact estimates’ credibility. This interactive workshop reveals 22 pitfalls that render common ROI determinations meaningless and shows instead how to identify full-story key effects on revenue and expense variables, reliably quantify tangible and intangible costs and benefits, and convincingly communicate the business value of project investments. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to a real case.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: * The financial information that business decision makers need and demand. * ROI and related calculations, strengths, weaknesses, and common pitfalls.

* Using ROI Value Modeling™ and Problem Pyramid™ to fully identify relevant costs and benefits. * Quantifying intangibles, risk, flexibility, and opportunity. * Professionally presenting credible business value measurements so people pay attention.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for business, systems, and project managers as well as analysts, implementers, users, and others who must know the return on project investments.

OUTLINE WHAT MONEY HAS TO DO WITH IT

Project Manager role with regard to ROI

Situations demanding ROI, their issues

Difficulty of making convincing arguments

Linking ROI to the business case

Value Modeling™ Relationship Diagram

Investment vs. expense

Justification vs. objective analysis

Meanings of “It costs too much”

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Factors other than cost to be considered

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Costs and benefits, revenues vs. expenses Return on Investment (ROI) calculations Net present value, discounted cash flow Payback period, annualized return Internal rate of return (IRR), hurdle rate ‘Telling the story’ not just ROI calculations Failing to quantify ‘intangibles’ and risk Scenario approach to showing benefits Mistakenly thinking ROI does not apply

DETERMINING MEANINGFUL BENEFITS

Why it’s important to find the benefits first

Treacy’s model of 5 revenue categories

Problem Pyramid™ to find requirements

Decision variable clarification chain

Putting a dollar value on intangibles

Opportunity, innovation, and flexibility

Mandates, project with no apparent benefits ESTIMATING CREDIBLE COSTS

Problem Pyramid™ ties costs to value

Basing costs on implementation of design

Business case framework

Basic formula for estimating costs

Main causes of poor estimates

Top-down vs. bottom-up techniques

Risks that afflict ROI calculations

Three measurable ways to address risks

Best-, worst-, most-likely-case scenarios

Sources of parameter sizing assumptions

Defining a reasonable scenario for success

Getting reliable cost and revenue amounts REPORTING AND MONITORING

Single vs. multiple scenario presentation

Applying apples vs. apples, when you can’t

Scenario assumptions and parameters

No change vs. proposed scenarios’ ROIs

Measuring intangibles’ monetary effects Continual, step-wise, and one-time changes Percentage-likelihood impact adjustments Presenting with spreadsheets ROI Value Dashboard™ modeling tool Caution about commercial ROI calculators Using value modeling to improve decisions Dashboard and scorecard-type notification Capturing, calibrating with project actuals Adjusting appropriately during project

Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Wednesday, December 6 , 2017 Payment received by Nov. 29 IEEE Members $220 Non-members $245 Payment received after Nov. 29 IEEE Members $245 Non-members $265

http://ieeeboston.org/determining-communicating-project-value-investment-roi

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Making You a Leader - Fast Track Become the Leader You Want and Need Date & Time:

Monday, December 11; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (7.5 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

We do projects to make change. Yet, change will • Behaviors leaders use to influence others, up not occur without leadership, and leaders are rare. and down, to want to do what the leader wants Leaders make others want to do what the leader them to do wants done. Leaders cause ordinary people to • Special techniques personal development clinachieve extraordinary things. Managing is not the ics use to change lifetime learning and make same as leading, and titles do not make leaders. leaders.

Seminars can teach you to manage, but they can- • How to employ those special techniques in a not teach you to be a leader. Rather, making a follow-on mini-clinic to develop the leadership leader takes special techniques—such as our perskills they need to make their projects successsonal development clinics—that can change deepful. seated behaviors learned over a lifetime.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been However, since clinics usually last about ten weeks, designed for business and systems professionals this mini-clinic was devised as a more convenient who want to improve their ability to lead and influalternative. This format places responsibility upon ence other people. the participant to carry out an extended informal follow-on program after completion of the formal LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS & ROLE seminar workshop session.

How leadership looks and feels Management vs. leadership During the follow-on period, the participant uses Leadership components of project success time-condensed methods that simulate the lifetime Basic leadership practices; power sources learning which makes a leader. Therefore, commit- Real change leaders in organizations ment to carrying out these exercises is essential for successful transformation.

TEAMS AND LEADERSHIP Everyone feels leadership is lacking PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: Everyone thinks s/he is a leader • Leadership characteristics and practices that Results, not actions or intent are essential for project and personal success. Workgroups, teams, and leaders • Differences between management and leader- Situational leadership styles ship, how they conflict, and why leaders are so Coaching and sports analogies to projects rare.

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Hierarchy of needs effects on projects Hygiene factors vs. motivators Helping project players get their rewards Influencing up and down without authority Inspiring the extra efforts projects need Energizing the project team SHARED VISIONS Relating values and vision to projects Getting others to embrace one’s vision Developing a motivating project vision WHERE AND HOW LEADERS ARE MADE Born or made? How do we know?

Habits of thought that affect project success Overcoming self-limiting lifetime learning Leader’s critical success factors Traditional education doesn’t make leaders Special way—personal development clinics SETTING AND ACCOMPLISHING GOALS S.M.A.R.T. goals for self and project Action plans to achieve your goals Visualizing and emotionalizing DEFINING THE FOLLOW-ON PROGRAM Clarifying project leadership objectives Breaking into prioritized subgoals Establishing rewarding daily achievements Special techniques to change habits

CARRYING OUT THE MINI-CLINIC Working with a follow-up support structure Mapping results regularly to goals Objectively recording leadership changes Self-leadership through the process Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, December 4, 2017 Payment received by Nov. 27 IEEE Members $220 Non-members $245 Payment received after Nov. 27 IEEE Members $245 Non-members $265

http://ieeeboston.org/making-leader-fast-track-become-leader-want-need/

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2017 IEEE WIE USA EAST FORUM

Call for Participation

November 30 – December 2, 2017 Baltimore, MD

Presentation Topics Mentoring the next generation of female leaders Strategies for increasing equity in power and decision making Women as leaders in education, industry, and government Development: communication skills in written and spoken word, effective dialog Cross-cultural aspects of leadership What it takes to be a great leader - qualities that all successful leaders share Shaping the future by female leaders Training vs inherent skills: can leadership be learned?

Work-Life balance: family systems traditions and changes Leadership development for women: overcoming stereotypes The design, implementation, and evaluation of leadership from a structural perspective Helping girls and young women become leaders - motivating to empower, empowering to motivate  Exploring the attrition gap - why do women leave the engineering field and what can be done to prevent it            

Submission Deadline Presentation topic abstract suitable for program (up to 150 words), and extended abstract for evaluation (up to 2 pages) due 24 July 2017.

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Deadline: extended to November 1, 2017!!!

http://ieee-hst.org/ Sponsor: Call for Papers & Posters

The 18th annual IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST ’18), will be held 2 – 3 May 2018, in the greater Washington D.C. area. This symposium brings together innovators from leading academic, industry, businesses, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, and government agencies to provide a forum to discuss ideas, concepts, and experimental results.

Produced by IEEE with technical support from DHS S&T, IEEE, IEEE Boston Section, and IEEE-USA and organizational support from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Raytheon, and MITRE, this year’s event will once again showcase selected technical papers and posters highlighting emerging technologies to: Secure Cyberspace

Enhance Biometrics & Forensics

Secure Land and Maritime Borders

Prevent Terrorism & Manage Incidents

We are currently seeking technical paper and poster session submissions in each of the areas noted above. Papers examining the feasibility of transition to practice will also be considered. This year, papers focused on DHS highpriority technology gaps will be of particular interest. All areas will cover the following common topics: • Strategy and threat characterization, operational concepts, risk analysis; • Modeling, simulation, experimentation, and exercises & training; and • Testbeds, standards, performance and evaluations.

Contact Information For more detailed information on the Call for Papers and Posters, as well as Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities, visit the website http://ieee-hst.org/ or email: information@ieee-hst.org. Submissions should be made at the following website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/HST2018 Important Dates Paper Extended Abstract and Poster Abstract Deadline:

October 16, 2017

Paper, Poster Acceptance Notification

December 15, 2017

Final Paper Submission Deadline:

March 30, 2018

All deadlines are by midnight Eastern Time.

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Organizing Committee General Chairs: Deputy Chair: Technical Chairs: Marketing Chair: Local Arrangement Chair: Marketing Chair: Publications Chair: Sponsorship/Exhibits Chair: Special Advisor to the Chair: Registration Chair:

James Flavin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Jordan Feidler, MITRE Fausto Molinet, Matrix Internationale Gerald Larocque MIT Lincoln Laboratory David Harvey, MITRE Anthony Serino, Raytheon Bob Alongi, IEEE Boston Jessica Kelly, Raytheon Adam Norige, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fausto Molinet, Matrix Internationale Lennart Long, EMC Consultant Karen Safina, IEEE Boston

Prevent Terrorism and Manage Incidents Lance Fiondella, UMass, Dartmouth Kenneth Crowther, MITRE Enhance Biometrics & Forensics Eric Schwoebel, MIT Lincoln Laboratory James L. Wayman, San Jose State University Secure Land and Maritime Borders Karen Panetta, Tufts University Rich Moro, Raytheon John Aldridge, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Secure Cyberspace Claire Applegarth, MITRE Mark Peters, MITRE

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Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers (Online Edition) Students have access to this self-paced course for 90 days!!

Registration Fee: 350

New Online Course

• To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

Lecturer – Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at LynuxWorks, Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based software development tools, training and consulting services for the embedded systems market.

Course Summary - This video course provides advanced training in the development of Embedded Linux Board Support Packages (BSPs) and Device Drivers. The first part of the course focuses on BSP and Software Development Kit (SDK) development in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on application performance measurement and improvement.

The latter part of the course covers Embedded Linux Device Driver development including key device driver decisions and deployment considerations for Course Schedule Embedded Linux BSPs.

Getting Started with Embedded Linux Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real-time engineers who are developing Embedded Linux BSPs and Device Drivers for Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Linux BSP and Device Driver development.

Course Objectives • To gain an understanding of the complexities of BSP and SDK development and their uses in Embedded Linux systems.

• To provide a basic understanding of the Linux I/O Subsystem and the Device Driver Models provided with Embedded Linux distributions.

• To gain an in-depth understanding of character-based device drivers in Embedded Linux • To understand key device driver subsystems including relatively slow I/O interconnects such as I2C, SPI and USB as well as high-speed interfaces such as Ethernet, USB 3.0 and PCIe

Embedded Linux Training Overview Linux Terminology, History and the GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online)

BSP Requirements

U-Boot and Bootloader Development

Embedded Linux BSP Development Basics Basic BSP Development Files and Filesystem Support The I/O Subsystem: Talking to Hardware Memory Management and Paging Error Handling in Embedded Linux BSPs Timing and Timers Interrupt and Exception Handling in BSPs BSP Deployment Issues and Practices

Embedded Linux SDK Basics

The 3 Pieces of an SDK Embedded Linux Distributions and the GNU Compiler

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Collection (GCC) Other Embedded Linux Development Tools Library Support, Glibc and Alternatives SDK Deployment and Support Debugging GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debug and Test Tools An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Advanced Debug with printk and syslogd

System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and sys Filesystems Advanced Logging Methods KGDB and KDB Crash Dumps

Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Configuring Embedded Linux Config Methods Config Syntax Adding Code to the Linux Kernel

Booting Embedded Linux Processor Startup Initial Functions The initcalls Using __init Functions NFS Booting

Root File Systems RAMdisk Booting with initrd RAMdisk Booting with initramfs initrd vs initramfs Root File System Development Busybox Development Building a RAMdisk for an initrd Building a RAMdisk for an initramfs Flash File System Development

BootLoader Optimizations Boot Time Measurements Effective Memory and Flash Usage Filesystem Performance Measurement Some Ideas on Performance Measurement

The Original UNIX Device Driver Model The fops and file structs The inode and dentry structs Major and Minor Numbers Embedding Channel Information Deferring Work The /proc Filesystem Configuring the Device Driver A Simulated Device Driver Modularization Revisited

The Evolution of a New Driver Model The Initial Object-Oriented Approach Platform Devices and Drivers A Generic Subsystem Model

The Generic Subsystem Model in Detail Subsystem Registration The Probe and Init Functions The Show and Store Functions User Access via the /sys Filesystem Configuring the New Device Driver The udev Linux Application

Comparing the Two Driver Models The Flattened Device Tree (FDT) openBoot and its Effect on Embedded Linux The Device Tree Script (dts) File The Device Tree Compiler (dtc) The Device Tree Blob (dtb) File Building a dtb File Hybrid Device Drivers Other fops Functions

Testing and Debug of Embedded Linux BSPs The Need for Ioctl Kernel Debug and Kernel Probes Linux Device Driver Subsystems Kexec and Kdump Direct Connect Device Drivers The Linux Test Project (LTP) Serial/Console Drivers, I2C & SPI Performance Tuning Embedded Linux BSPs Real-Time Clocks and Watchdogs Virtualization GPIO and the Pinmux

Measuring Embedded Linux BSP Performance Flash MTDs and Direct Memory Access Common Considerations USB, Power and CPU Management Uncommon Considerations Video and Audio

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PCI and VME Block Devices RAMdisk and Flash Filesystems MMCs and SD Cards Network Device Drivers MAC and PHY Device Drivers net_device and net_device_stats Network Device Initialization Device Discovery and Dynamic Initialization Network Interface Registration Network Interface Service Functions Receiving and Transmitting Packets Notifier Chains and Device Status Notification Unwired Device Drivers Wireless Device Drivers (WiFi, WLAN) Bluetooth and BlueZ Infrared and IrDA Cellular from 2G to 5G

Drivers in User Space Accessing I/O and Memory Regions User Mode SCSI, USB and I2C UIO High-Speed Interconnects PCIe iSCSI Infiniband FibreChannel Debugging Device Drivers kdb, kgdb and JTAG Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump Kernel Profiling User Mode Linux Performance Tuning Device Drivers Some Final Recommendations

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Undergraduate Research Technology Conference

47 PAPERS

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Embedded Linux Optimization Tools and Techniques (Online Edition)

Students have access to this self-paced course for 90 days!!

Registration fee: $250 Summary - This video course provides advanced training in the debugging, testing, profiling and performance optimization of Embedded Linux software. The first part of the course focuses on advanced debugging, testing and profiling in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on using Eclipse, Backend Debuggers, JTAG and In-Circuit Emulators as well as Kernel Logging capabilities and Kernel Hacking. The latter part of the course covers performance measurement and optimization affecting boot, memory, I/O and CPU performance and key performance optimization tools for Embedded Linux software including the perf tool, advanced cache usage and compiler-based optimization.

Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real-time engineers who are developing high-performance Linux applications and device drivers using Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Advanced Embedded Linux optimization.

Course Objectives • To understand debugging, profiling and testing high performance Embedded Linux software.

• To provide an overview of Linux application performance measurement and optimization.

• To understand the tools used for performance optimization of Embedded Linux software.

New Online Course

• To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

Lecturer – Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. He has held a variety of software engineering positions at LynuxWorks, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems and Lockheed Sanders. RTETC, LLC provides real-time embedded training and consulting to many embedded systems companies. RTETC focuses on real-time operating systems (RTOS), Linux and Android solutions for the embedded systems market.

Getting Started with Embedded Linux Embedded Linux Training Overview Terminology Linux Versioning The GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online) A Development Cycle Focused on Performance A Basic Optimization Process

Basic Debugging Review Embedded Applications Debug GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debuggers An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Debugging with printk, syslog, syslogd and LTTng

System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and /sys Filesystems

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Basic Logging KDB and KGDB Crash Dumps and Post-Mortem Debugging

Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Backend Debuggers In-Circuit Emulators Hardware Simulators Analyzers Requirements Development Performance Requirements Derived Requirements Testability and Traceability Reviewing Requirements Designing for Performance Design for Test (DFT) Agile Software Design Software and Linux Decomposition Memory Management CPU and OS Partitioning Design Reviews Coding for Performance Coding Standards and Consistency Languages, Libraries and Open Source Components Learning Magic Numbers Letting Compilers Work For You Global, Static and Local Variables Code Reviews

Software Testing Unit-Level Testing System-Level Testing Code Coverage Tools gcov Automated Testing Some Embedded Linux Test Recommendations DebugFS Configuring DebugFS DebugFS Capabilities

Advanced Logging LogFS Using Logwatch and Swatch Using syslogd and syslog-ng Tracing ptrace and strace

New Tracing Methods SystemTap Ftrace, Tracepoints and Event Tracing Tracehooks and utrace

Profiling Basic Profiling gprof and Oprofile Performance Counters LTTng Another DDD Example

Manual Profiling Instrumenting Code Output Profiling Timestamping Addressing Performance Problems

Types of Performance Problems

Using Performance Tools to Find Areas for Improvement Application and System Optimization CPU Usage Optimization Memory Usage Optimization Disk I/O and Filesystem Usage Optimization

Measuring Embedded Linux Performance

Some Ideas on Performance Measurement Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations Using JTAG Methods BootLoader Measurements Boot Time Measurements

The Perf Tool

Origins of Perf

The Perf Framework

Perf Commands and Using Perf

Listing Events

Counting Events

Profiling with Perf

Static Tracing with Perf

Dynamic Tracing with Perf

Perf Reporting

Performance Tool Assistance Recording Commands and Performance System Error Messages and Event Logging Dynamic Probes Jprobes and Return Probes Kernel Probes

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Kexec and Kdump

Improving Boot Performance

Boot Time Optimization

The Linux Fastboot Capability

Building a Smaller Linux

Building a Smaller Application

Filesystem Tips and Tricks

Some Notes on Library Usage

Improving Kernel Performance Kernel Hacking CONFIG_EMBEDDED Configuring printk Test Code Configuring Kernel and IO Scheduling

Improving CPU Performance Run Queue Statistics Context Switches and Interrupts CPU Utilization Linux Performance Tools for CPU Process-Specific CPU Performance Tools Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving System Memory Performance Memory Performance Statistics Linux Performance Tools for Memory Process-Specific Memory Performance Tools More Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving I/O and Device Driver Performance

Disk, Flash and General File I/O

Improving Overall Performance Using the Compiler

Basic Compiler Optimizations

Architecture-Dependent and Independent Optimization

Code Modification Optimizations

Feedback Based Optimization

Application Resource Optimization

The Hazard of Trust

An Iterative Process for Optimization

Improving Development Efficiency

The Future of Linux Performance Tools Some Final Recommendations

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Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers (Online Edition) Students have access to this self-paced course • Design Reviews Registration Fee : $125 for 90 days!!

Module 4: Course Description This course provides an • Design Control (continued) introduction to the development of medical device • Design Verification software. The course is comprised of 4 modules • Software Verification Process that range from 30-45 minutes in duration. The fo- • Testing Overview cus is on complying with FDA Design Controls and • Design Validation IEC 62304 requirements.

• Software Validation Process • Design Changes This course is intended for software developers • Design Transfer who are actively involved in developing medical • Design History File device software.

• Course Summary Module 1 • Medical Device Definitions: FDA and European Union (EU) • Regulatory Roadmap • FDA/EU Device Classifications • FDA QSR Regulation • FDA Guidance Documents that pertain to medical device software Module 2 • International Standards that pertain to medical device software • Types of Software Regulated by FDA • Quality System basics: Procedures, Work Instructions and Records • ALL Software is Defective…

Module 3: • Design Control Overview • General Requirements • Design and Development Planning • Software Development Models • Design Input • About Requirements…

• Design Output

Speaker Bio: Steven R. Rakitin has over 40 years experience as a software engineer including 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. He has worked with over 85 medical device manufacturers worldwide, from startups to Fortune 100 corporations.

He has written several papers on medical device software risk management as well as a book titled: Software Verification & Validation for Practitioners and Managers.

He received a BSEE from Northeastern University and an MSCS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He earned certifications from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as a Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and Quality Auditor (CQA). He is a Senior Life member of IEEE and a member of MassMEDIC. He is on the Editorial Review Board for the ASQ Journal Software Quality Professional.

As President of Software Quality Consulting Inc., he helps medical device companies comply with FDA regulations, guidance documents, and international standards in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

http://ieeeboston.org/software-development-medical-device-manufacturers-line-course/

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Fundamental Mathematics Concepts Relating to Electromagnetics (Online Edition)

Students have access to this self-paced course 3. Cross Product for 90 days!!

4. Contour Integration 5. Vector Algebra Registration Fee: 150 6. Surface Integration 7. Metric Coefficients Course Summary This course is designed for peo- 8. Coordinate Systems ple wishing to refresh or to learn the fundamental 9. Vector Coordinate Conversion mathematical concepts that are used to describe 10. Del Operator and the Gradient electromagnetic wave behavior. The modules ad- 11. The Curl dress all of the basic math concepts covered in a 12. Divergence traditional undergraduate electromagnetics course 13. Stokes Theorem in an ECE curriculum. These concepts include 14. Divergence Theorem Vector Basics, Integral Vector Calculus, Differ- 15. Laplacian ential Vector Calculus, Fundamental Coordinate 16. Complex Numbers Systems and Complex Numbers. After completing these modules, a person should have sufficient Instructorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bio: math skills to pursue graduate studies in electro- Dr. Kent Chamberlin is the Chair and a Profesmagnetics and/or be able to decipher the math pre- sor in the Department of Electrical and Computer sented in an upper-level text on the subject.

Engineering. In his more than thirty-five years in academia, he has performed research for more Target audience: This course is designed for peo- than twenty sponsors, including the National Sciple wishing to refresh or to learn the fundamental ence Foundation. He has received two Fulbright mathematical concepts that are used to describe awards, including the prestigious Fulbright Distinelectromagnetic wave behavior. guished Chair, which he served in Aveiro, Portugal.

He has also served as an Associate Editor for the Course chapters Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1. Vector Basics and he continues to be active in performing and 2. Dot Product publishing in a range of research areas. http://ieeeboston.org/fundamental-mathematics-concepts-relating-electromagnetics-line-course/

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Reliability Engineering for the Business World (Online Edition) Students have access to this self-paced course HALT/RDT/Predictions for 90 days!!

Manufacturing Model Early Life Failures Registration Fee: 320 Wear Out and Mid Life Crisis Advanced Reliability Course Description This course is about becoming a leader in reliability Course Objective engineering. While statistics are the tools of reli- To teach you how to become the go to person in ability engineering, it takes knowledge not only of your business for objective business sensed relithese tools but also of the business. Developing ability answers and requirements. knowledge of the business, from sales, engineering, customer service, to supply chain manage- Instructorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bio ment can determine how effective you can be in Kevin is an innovative leader in reliability methodimproving reliability. ologies with more than 30 years experience in the storage industry. In his latest role as Director of Never take anything for granted, even some rules Engineering, he developed a top down reliability/ of thumb in reliability can be misleading, this course availability management process for design orgawill show you how to prove what truly happens in nizations developing mission-critical storage systhe real world and how to effect change in any part tems. Kevin previously directed the most extensive of the business where it is needed. We will explore HALT/HASS operation in the industry, with over the balance sheet, organizational structure, cus- 300 chambers worldwide. He has written several tomers, service, and high volume manufacturing. papers, consulted with many companies, 3 patents Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about how often things fail, it is also awarded and 2 pending related to systems reliabilabout where the defect came from, what is the fi- ity and test. nancial effect, the recovery, when should a business take field action, effect of human error, failure His most recent work has been performing system analysis/material science, reliability testing, and architectural analysis to optimize system availabilmuch more. I will also discuss how you develop ex- ity, serviceability and costs. Providing guidance to ecutive buy in for change. The course assumes a development to maximize system reliability and rebasic knowledge in reliability statistics. There are duce service costs. He has provided consultation 12 sessions that cover the following topics. to many large companies such as EMC, CISCO, AT+T, HP, Seagate and many others. His position Course Outline and experience has enabled him to perform extenBasics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Measurements sive field studies and design of experiments. Kevin Business Model has developed many Design Model (HW and SW)

http://ieeeboston.org/reliability-engineering-business-world-line-course/

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Introduction to Embedded Linux (Online Edition)

Students have access to this self-paced course lation or prior knowledge of C-based Makefiles is Registration Fee: 350 for 90 days!! useful for completion of lab exercises. Lab solutions are also provided with the course. An EmbedCourse Summary: ded Linux target hardware platform is useful but not This first of a 2-part series introduces the Linux absolutely required for this course.

Operating System and the use of Embedded Linux Distributions. The course focuses on the develop- Additional Reference Materials ment and creation of applications in an Embedded Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love Linux context using the Eclipse IDE. The first part of Linux System Programming by Robert Love the course focuses on acquiring an understanding Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning by of the basic Linux Operating System, highlighting Steve Best areas of concern for Embedded Linux applications Optimizing Linux Performance by Phillip G. Ezolt development using Eclipse. The latter part covers Embedded Linux Primer by Christopher Hallinan the methods for booting Embedded Linux distribu- Pro Linux Embedded Systems by Gene Sally tions including embedded cross-development and Embedded Linux Development Using Eclipse by Doug Abbott target board considerations.

Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet et al Essential Linux Device Drivers by Sreekrishnan Who Should Attend: The course is designed for real-time engineers Venkateswaran who are building Embedded Linux solutions. It is Course Downloadable Content: also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Embedded Linux. This Video Lecture course will clearly demonstrate both the strengths Hands-On Lab Instructions and weaknesses of the Linux Operating System in Hands-On Lab Solutions Additional Related Materials Embedded Systems.

Course Objectives: To provide a basic understanding of the Linux OS and the Eclipse IDE framework.

To gain an understanding of the complexities of Embedded Linux Distributions and their use in embedded systems.

To give students confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project Hardware and Software Requirements

The Basics Linux Terminology, History and Versioning The Linux Community: Desktop & Embedded The GPL Linux References (Books and Online)

Getting Started Kernel Source Code Building the Kernel Embedded Linux Kernels The student should have a working Linux desktop Linux 2.6 environment either directly installed or in a virtualization environment. The desktop Linux should Basic Kernel Capabilities have the GNU compiler and binary utilities (binutils) Process and Threads Management already installed. A working Eclipse C/C++ instal- Signals and System Calls

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Synchronization, IPC and Error Handling Timing and Timers Memory Management and Paging The I/O Subsystem: A Tale of Two Models Modularization Debugging Process-Level and System-Level Debug GDB and KGDB GDB Server and Remote Debugging An Eclipse Debug Example Other Debug and Test Tools Other System-Level Debug Approaches Process & Threads Management What are Processes and Threads?

Virtual Memory Mapping Creating and Managing Processes and Threads Thread-Specific Data (TSD) POSIX The Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) Kernel Threads Signals System Calls Scheduling Linux 2.4 and 2.6 Scheduling Models The O(1) Scheduler The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) Synchronization Via Global Data Via Semaphores, Files and Signals Inter-Process Communications (IPC) Message Queues Semaphores Revisited Shared Memory Pipes, FIFOs and Futexes Remote Procedure Calls Networking Error Handling errno and perror strerror and strerror_r oops, panics and Segmentation Faults Timing

How Linux Tells Time Kernel, POSIX and Interval Timers High-Resolution Timers (HRTs) Memory Management and Paging Demand Paging and Virtual Memory Allocating User and Kernel Memory Mapping Device Memory The Slab Allocator The OOM Killer Memory in Embedded Systems Modularization Creating a Module and Module Loading Dependency Issues In Embedded Systems Shared Libraries A Shared Library Example Static and Dynamic Libraries The I/O Subsystem: A Tale of Two Models The Original Device Driver Model The Standard I/O Interface The New Device Driver Model and Kernel Object Classes Initialization Platform Devices, Busses, Adapters and Drivers Comparing the Two Models Embedded Linux Trends Development, Monitoring and Testing Some Final Recommendations Lecturer: Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based development tools, training and consulting for the embedded systems market.

http://ieeeboston.org/introduction-to-embedded-linux-part-i-el201-online-course/

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Last Notice Before Course Begins, Please Register Now!!!)

Radar Basics and Amazing Recent Advances Date & Time: 6 – 9PM, Mondays, Nov. 6, 13, 20, Dec. 4, Jan. 8, 22, 29, Feb. 5

(If needed snow/makeup days Feb. 12, 26) (24 hours of instruction!)

Location: MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Rd., Bedford, MA Location:

(Rt 3, Exit 26 , 2.3 mi from Rt 128/95)

Speaker:

Dr. Eli Brookner, Raytheon Company (Retired) The following book plus over 15 paper reprints are provided FREE with your registration: 1. “Aspects of Modern Radar”, Dr. Eli Brookner (Editor), Artech House, Hardcover, 432 pages, 1988, List price: $159. The 1st chapter gives the best easy to read introduction to radar. It covers all aspects of radar: transmitters, receiver, antennas, signal processing, tracking, clutter derivation of radar equation in easy terms and definition of dB. The 2nd chapter gives detailed descriptions of different radar systems like: Cobra Dane, Pave Paws, BMEWS, Series 320 3D radar, OTH radars and dome antenna. The book has a catalog giving the detailed parameters for over 200 radars from around the world. The remaining chapters cover AEGIS SPY-1, Hybrid and MMIC circuits, ultra low sidelobe antennas (ULSA), mmw, radar cross section and Doppler weather radars. The material in the book is easy to access and as a result the text serves as a handy reference book.

All Attendees of the class will receive a trial license of MATLAB, Phased Array System Toolbox, and Antenna Toolbox from MathWorks in addition to a set of examples which help demonstrate the key radar concepts covered in the course material. MathWorks will also give a radar demonstration.

This course is an updated version of the Radar Technology course given previously. Those who have taken the Radar Technology previously should find it worthwhile taking this revised version. New material includes latest on solid state devices and transmitters including GaN, SiC, SiGe; Breakthroughs in Radar — $10 T/R module, Digital Beam Forming (DBF), Packaging, Disruptive Technology, Metamaterials, radar on a chip, 256 element phased array on a chip, Memristors, Graphene.

Also covered are radar height-range coverage diagram using the powerful SPAWAR’s AREPS program. AREPS

provides coverage for arbitrary propagation conditions (ducts [evaporation, surface, or elevated], subrefraction and superrefraction) and terrain conditions based on DTED map data. AREPS now accounts for surface roughness scattering and evaluates sea and land clutter backscatter versus range. Attendees will be told how to obtain AREPS FREE. Valued at over $7,000. Also new is coverage of Anomalous Propagation and what to do about it. Finally also covered is the new Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) explained in simple physical terms.

Updated course is framed around FREE book described above. Also given out free are supplementary notes consisting of copies of >800 slides plus over 15 paper reprints by Dr. Brookner.

For the beginner, basics such as the radar equation,

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MTI (Moving Target Indicator), pulse doppler processing, antenna-scanning techniques, pulse compression, CFAR, RAC and SAW devices, dome antenna, CCDs, BBDs, SAW, SAW monolithic convolvers, microstrip antennas, ultra-low antenna sidelobes (<-40 dB), stacked beam and phased array systems, (1-D, 2-D, Limited Field of View [LFOV]), Moving Target Detection (MTD) are all explained in simple terms. For both the novice and experienced covered are tracking, prediction and smoothing in simple terms (mystery taken out of GH, GHK and Kalman filters); the latest developments and future trend in solid state, tube and digital processing technologies; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Displaced Phase Center Antenna (DPCA); Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) ; digital beam forming (DBF); Adaptive-Adaptive Array Processing for jammer suppression with orders of magnitude reduction in computation; RECENT AMAZING RADAR BREAKTHROUGHS .

Lecture 1, Nov. 6 FUNDAMENTALS OF Radar: Part 1: Very brief history of radar, major achievements since WWII: PHASED ARRAYS: Principles explained with COBRA DANE used as example.

Near and Far Field Defined, Phased Steering, Subarraying, Array Weighting, Monopulse, COBRA DANE slide tour (10 story building).

FUNDAMENTALS OF Radar: Radar equation derived.

FREQUENCY TRADEOFFS: Search vs Track, Range and Doppler Ambiguities, Detection in Clutter. Blind Velocity region, range eclipsing, Environmental Factors, Dependence of clutter model on grazing angle and size radar resolution cell discussed, Weibull clutter, Polarization Choice.

Lecture 2, Nov. 13 FUNDAMENTALS of Radar: Part 2: Antenna Pattern Lobing in Elevation due to multipath, Detection of Low Flying Low Cross-Section targets, Ground Multipath Elevation Angle Error Problem and ways to cope with it, e.g., use of an even difference pattern Off-Axis Monopulse,

Complex Monopulse,Two Frequency Radar Systems: Marconi L- and S-band S631, Signaal/Thales (Holland),Flycatcher X and Ka System; Tube and Solid State OTH. PROPAGATION: standard, superrefraction, subrefraction, surface-based ducts, evaporation ducts. Determination of radar coverage using new AREPS program. ANTENNA SCANNING SYSTEMS: Fixed Beam System: Wake Measurement Radar; 2-D Radars, 3-D Radars: Stacked Beam: Marconi Martello, Smart-L, SMARTELLO, ARSR-4; 1-D Frequency Scanning: ITT Series 320; 1-D Phased Scanning: TPS-59, GE-592, RAT31DL; Phased-Frequency Scanners: Raytheon Fire Finder and Plessey AR320.

Lecture 3, Nov. 20 FUNDAMENTALS of Radar: Part 4: ULTRA LOW ANTENNA SIDELOBES (40 dB down or more).

MOVING TARGET INDICATOR (MTI): Two-Pulse Canceller, Pulse Doppler Processing; MOVING TARGET DETECTOR (MTD); Optimum Clutter Canceller, Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP), Airborne MTI (AMTI), Displaced Phase Center Antenna (DPCA).

Lecture 4, Dec. 4 SIGNAL PROCESSING: Part 1: What is PULSE COMPRESSION? Matched Filters; Chirp Waveform Defined; ANALOG PROCESSING: Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices: Reflective Array Compressor (RAC), Delay Lines, Bandpass Filters, Oscillators, Resonators;

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Lecture 5, Jan. 8 SIGNAL PROCESSING: Part 2: DIGITAL PROCESSING: Fast Fourier Transform (FFT); Butterfly, Pipeline and InPlace Computation explained in simple terms; Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) Spectral Estimate; State-of-the-art of A/Ds, FPGAs and Memory; Signal Processor Architectures: Pipeline FFT, Distributed, Systolic; Digital Beam Forming (DBF).

Future Trends.

Lecture 6, Jan. 22 SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR): Strip and Spotlight SAR explained in simple terms.

TUBES: Basics given of Magnetron, Cross Field Amplifiers, Klystrons, Traveling Wave Tubes, Gyro Tubes.

TREND TOWARD SOLID STATE PHASED-ARRAY TRANSMITTERS: Discrete All Solid State PAVE PAWS and BMEWS radars; advantages over tube radars; MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuitry; integrated circuitry applied to microwaves components): THAAD, SPY-3, IRIDIUM, XBR, JLENS. Solid State ‘Bottle’ Transmitters: ASR -11/ DASR, ASR-23SS, ASDE-X. Extreme MMIC.

Breakthroughs and Trends in Radar and Phased-Arrays: Radar on a chip, 258 element phased array on a chip, new revolutionary metamaterial for electronically scanned arrays and target stealthing, Moore’s Law marches forward, quantum anti-stealth radar, you have heard of orthogonal H and V polarization which can double channel data rate, there are an infinite other polarizations called orbital angular momentum (OAM).

Lecture 7, Jan. 29 TRACKING, PREDICTION AND SMOOTHING: αβγ (GHK) Filter; Kalman Filter. All explained in simple physical terms.

Lecture 8, Feb. 5 HOW TO LOOK LIKE A GENIUS IN DETECTION WITHOUT REALLY TRYING: Simple procedure for determining detection. Covered are beam shape, CFAR, mismatch losses.

The Following is Included in Your Registration:

Value Textbook ……….................................................. $159 15 Reprints ..........................................................$300 Over 800 Vugraphs .............................................$120

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Friday, October 27, 2017 Payment received by October 24 IEEE Members $300 Non-members $340 Payment received after October 24 IEEE Members $340 Non-members $370

http://ieeeboston.org/radar-basics-recent-amazing-advances-fall-2017

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Practical RF PCB Design: Wireless Networks, Products and Telecommunications Date & Time: Thursday & Friday, December 14 & 15; 9AM - 4:30PM (13 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Henry Lau, Lexiwave Technology

Overview: One of the most demanding consumer products in the market is the wireless telecommunication product. A well-designed Radio Frequency Printed Circuit Board (RF PCB) contributes significantly to the success of any wireless product as the layout of the PCB greatly affects the performance, stability and reliability of the product. In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly competitive wireless products market with increasingly compressed development time-frame, there is a strong demand for RF professionals who possess the knowledge and experience to design top-performing RF PCBs in less number of iterations. What matters is whether your level of competence is up to the required standard to meet such demand.

OUTLINE 1. Printed circuit board design for RF circuits From product design, circuit design to PCB design Layer stack-up assignment Grounding methods and techniques Interconnects and I/O Bypassing and decoupling Partitioning methods 2. Printed circuits board design for other circuits Clock circuits Base-band circuits Audio circuits Power supplies Impedance-controlled circuits

3. PCB design for EMC/EMI compliance Audience: RF Designers, Wireless Product De- EMC/EMI compliance signers, Field Application Engineers, Design Man- Grounding methods agers and related professionals.

Decoupling methods Shielding methods Benefits: This course aims to provide participants with an insightful training on RF PCB design 4. Additional Design Techniques from a practical, industrial perspective. Participants Production concerns will be led through a systematic, theoretical presen- Systematic product design approach tation with case studies on commercial products in RF Modules the training. The course will be conducted by an RF Evaluation boards expert with rich industrial experience. It is suitable Other RF concerns for RF professionals who want to keep up-to-date Casing design their skills and knowledge in RF PCB design and 5. Case studies stay competitive.

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Expertise: Henry Lau received his M.Sc. and MBA degrees from UK and USA respectively. He has more than 25 years of experience in designing RF systems, products and RFICs in both Hong Kong and US. He worked for Motorola and Conexant in US as Principal Engineer on developing RFICs for cellular phone and silicon tuner applications. Mr Lau holds five patents all in RF designs. He is currently running Lexiwave Technology, a fables semiconductor company in Hong Kong and US designing and selling RFICs, RF modules and RF solutions. He has also been teaching numerous RF-related courses internationally.

notes, lunch and coffee breaks included with registration

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, December 4, 2017 Payment received by November 29 IEEE Members $405 Non-members $435 Payment received after November 29 IEEE Members $435 Non-members $455

http://ieeeboston.org/practical-rf-pcb-design-wireless-networks-products-telecommunications-fall-2017

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If you have an expertise that you feel might be of interest to our members, please submit that to our online course proposal form on the section’s website (www.ieeeboston.org) and click on the course proposal link (direct course proposal form link is http://ieeeboston.org/course-proposals/ .

Alternatively, you may contact the IEEE Boston Section office at ieeebostonsection@gamil.com or 781 245 5405.

• Honoraria can be considered for course lecturers • Applications oriented, practical focused courses are best (all courses should help attendees expand their knowledge based and help them do their job better after completing a course • Courses should be no more than 2 full days, or 18 hours for a multi-evening course • Your course will be publicized to over 10,000 local engineers • You will be providing a valuable service to your profession • Previous lecturers include: Dr. Eli Brookner, Dr. Steven Best, Colin Brench, to name a few.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Committees Chairman & SIAM Liaison Dr. Jeremy Kepner Fellow, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Senior Advisory Board Chair Mr. Robert Bond CTO, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Senior Advisory Board Prof. Anant Agarwal MIT CSAIL Prof. Nadya Bliss Arizona State University Dr. Richard Games Chief Engineer, MITRE Intelligence Center Mr. John Goodhue Director, MGHPCC Dr. Bernadette Johnson Chief Scientist, DIUX Dr. Richard Linderman ASDR&E Mr. David Martinez Associate Division Head MIT Lincoln Laboratory

www.ieee‐hpec.org

The IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC ’18) will be held in the Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, USA on 25 – 28 September 2018. The HPEC charter is to be the premier conference in the world on the confluence of HPC and Embedded Computing.

The technical committee seeks new presentations that clearly describe advances in high performance extreme computing technologies, emphasizing one or more of the following topics:           

Machine Learning Graph Analytics and Network Science Advanced Multicore Software Technologies Advanced Processor Architectures Automated Design Tools Big Data and Distributed Computing Big Data Meets Big Compute Case Studies and Benchmarking of Applications Cloud HPEC Computing Technologies for Challenging Form Factors ASIC and FPGA Advances

1.

2.

Dr. Michael Stonebraker Co-founder SciDB and Vertica; CTO VoltDB and Paradigm4

Submission Deadline: May 18, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: August 1, 2018

Publications Chair Prof. Miriam Leeser Northeastern University Administrative Contacts Mr. Robert Alongi IEEE Boston Section

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Full papers (up to 6 pages, references not included), and Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages, references included).

IMPORTANT DATES:

CFP Co-Chairs Dr. Patrick Dreher MIT Dr. Franz Franchetti CMU

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Data Intensive Computing Digital Front Ends Fault-Tolerant Computing • Embedded Cloud Computing General Purpose GPU Computing High Performance Data Analysis Interactive and Real-Time Supercomputing Mapping and Scheduling of Parallel and Real-Time Applications New Application Frontiers Open System Architectures Secure Computing & Anti-Tamper Technologies

HPEC accepts two types of submissions:

Dr. John Reynders CIO Moderna

Publicity Co-Chairs Dr. Albert Reuther MIT Lincoln Laboratory Mr. Dan Campbell GTRI

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Preference will be given to papers with strong, quantitative results, demonstrating novel approaches or describing high quality prototypes. Authors of full papers can mark their preference for a poster display or an oral presentation. Presenters who wish to have hardware demonstrations are encouraged to mark their preference for a poster display. Accepted extended abstracts will be displayed as posters. All paper and extended abstract submissions need to use the approved IEEE templates. Full paper submissions with the highest peer review ratings will be published by IEEE in the official HPEC proceedings available on IEEE eXplore. All other accepted submissions and extended abstracts are published on ieee-hpec.org.

Vendors are encouraged to sign up for vendor booths. This will allow vendors to present their HPEC technologies in an interactive atmosphere suitable for product demonstration and promotion. Papers can be declared “student paper” if the first author was a student when doing the presented work, and will be eligible for the “IEEE HPEC best student paper award.” Papers should not be anonymized. We welcome input (hpec@ieee-hpec.org) on tutorials, invited talks, special sessions, peer reviewed presentations, and vendor demos. Instructions for submitting will be posted on the conference web site shortly. Full paper submissions should use the approved IEEE templates. The highest scoring submissions will be published

by IEEE in the official HPEC proceedings available on IEEE eXplore. All other accepted submissions are published on ieee-hpec.org.

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Advanced Embedded Linux Optimization Time & Date:

6 - 9PM, Mondays, Jan. 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2018 (12 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Woburn, MA area near to Rt. 95/128

Speaker:

Mike McCullough, RTETC, LLC

Course Summary - This 4-day technical training course provides advanced training in the debugging, testing, profiling and performance optimization of Embedded Linux software. The first part of the course focuses on advanced debugging, testing and profiling in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on using Eclipse, Backend Debuggers, JTAG and In-Circuit Emulators as well as Kernel Logging capabilities and Kernel Hacking. The latter part of the course covers performance measurement and optimization affecting boot, memory, I/O and CPU performance and key performance optimization tools for Embedded Linux software including the perf tool, advanced cache usage and compiler-based optimization.

Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real-time engineers who are developing high-performance Linux applications and device drivers using Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Advanced Embedded Linux optimization.

Course Schedule Day 1

Getting Started with Embedded Linux Embedded Linux Training Overview Terminology Linux Versioning The GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online) A Development Cycle Focused on Performance A Basic Optimization Process

Basic Debugging Review Embedded Applications Debug GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debuggers An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Debugging with printk, syslog, syslogd and LTTng

System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and /sys Filesystems Basic Logging KDB and KGDB Crash Dumps and Post-Mortem Debugging

Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Backend Debuggers In-Circuit Emulators Hardware Simulators Analyzers

Course Objectives • To understand debugging, profiling and testing high performance Embedded Linux software.

• To provide an overview of Linux application performance measurement and optimization.

• To understand the tools used for performance optimization of Embedded Linux software.

• To give students the confidence to apply these Course Schedule Day 2

Requirements Development concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

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Performance Requirements Derived Requirements Testability and Traceability Reviewing Requirements

Designing for Performance Design for Test (DFT) Agile Software Design Software and Linux Decomposition Memory Management CPU and OS Partitioning Design Reviews

Coding for Performance Coding Standards and Consistency Languages, Libraries and Open Source Components Learning Magic Numbers Letting Compilers Work For You Global, Static and Local Variables Code Reviews

Software Testing Unit-Level Testing System-Level Testing Code Coverage Tools gcov Automated Testing Some Embedded Linux Test Recommendations

DebugFS Configuring DebugFS DebugFS Capabilities

Advanced Logging LogFS Using Logwatch and Swatch Using syslogd and syslog-ng

Tracing ptrace and strace New Tracing Methods SystemTap Ftrace, Tracepoints and Event Tracing Tracehooks and utrace

Profiling Basic Profiling gprof and Oprofile Performance Counters LTTng

Another DDD Example

Manual Profiling Instrumenting Code Output Profiling Timestamping Course Schedule Day 3

Addressing Performance Problems Types of Performance Problems Using Performance Tools to Find Areas for Improvement Application and System Optimization CPU Usage Optimization Memory Usage Optimization Disk I/O and Filesystem Usage Optimization

Measuring Embedded Linux Performance Some Ideas on Performance Measurement Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations Using JTAG Methods BootLoader Measurements Boot Time Measurements

The Perf Tool Origins of Perf The Perf Framework Perf Commands and Using Perf Listing Events Counting Events Profiling with Perf Static Tracing with Perf Dynamic Tracing with Perf Perf Reporting

Performance Tool Assistance Recording Commands and Performance System Error Messages and Event Logging Dynamic Probes Jprobes and Return Probes Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump

Improving Boot Performance Boot Time Optimization The Linux Fastboot Capability Building a Smaller Linux Building a Smaller Application Filesystem Tips and Tricks

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Some Notes on Library Usage Course Schedule Day 4

Improving Kernel Performance Kernel Hacking CONFIG_EMBEDDED Configuring printk Test Code Configuring Kernel and IO Scheduling

Improving CPU Performance Run Queue Statistics Context Switches and Interrupts CPU Utilization Linux Performance Tools for CPU Process-Specific CPU Performance Tools Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving System Memory Performance Memory Performance Statistics Linux Performance Tools for Memory Process-Specific Memory Performance Tools More Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving I/O and Device Driver Performance Disk, Flash and General File I/O

Improving Overall Performance Using the Compiler Basic Compiler Optimizations Architecture-Dependent and Independent Optimization Code Modification Optimizations

Feedback Based Optimization Application Resource Optimization The Hazard of Trust An Iterative Process for Optimization Improving Development Efficiency The Future of Linux Performance Tools

Some Final Recommendations Lecturer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. He has held a variety of software engineering positions at LynuxWorks, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems and Lockheed Sanders. RTETC, LLC provides real-time embedded training and consulting to many embedded systems companies. RTETC focuses on real-time operating systems (RTOS), Linux and Android solutions for the embedded systems market.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Thursday, December 28, 2017 Payment received by December 26 IEEE Members $395 Non-members $415 Payment received after December 26 IEEE Members $415 Non-members $435

http://ieeeboston.org/advanced-embedded-linux-optimization-2

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Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers Date & Time:

6 - 9PM; Mondays, Nov. 13, 27, Dec. 4, 11 & 18 (15 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Mike McCullough, RTETC, LLC

Course Summary - This 5-day technical training course provides advanced training in the development of Embedded Linux Board Support Packages (BSPs) and Device Drivers. The first part of the course focuses on BSP and Software Development Kit (SDK) development in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on application performance measurement and improvement. The latter part of the course covers Embedded Linux Device Driver development including key device driver decisions and deployment considerations for Embedded Linux BSPs.

• To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

Course Schedule Day 1

Getting Started with Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux Training Overview Linux Terminology, History and the GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Linux References (Books and Online) Who Should Attend - The course is designed for BSP Requirements real-time engineers who are developing Embed- U-Boot and Bootloader Development ded Linux BSPs and Device Drivers for Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experi- Embedded Linux BSP Development Basics enced developers requiring a refresher course on Linux BSP and Device Driver development.

Basic BSP Development Files and Filesystem Support Course Objectives The I/O Subsystem: Talking to Hardware • To gain an understanding of the complexities Memory Management and Paging of BSP and SDK development and their uses in Error Handling in Embedded Linux BSPs Embedded Linux systems.

Timing and Timers • To provide a basic understanding of the Linux Interrupt and Exception Handling in BSPs I/O Subsystem and the Device Driver Models pro- BSP Deployment Issues and Practices vided with Embedded Linux distributions.

• To gain an in-depth understanding of charac- Embedded Linux SDK Basics ter-based device drivers in Embedded Linux • To understand key device driver subsystems The 3 Pieces of an SDK including relatively slow I/O interconnects such as Embedded Linux Distributions and the GNU ComI2C, SPI and USB as well as high-speed interfaces piler Collection (GCC) Other Embedded Linux Development Tools such as Ethernet, USB 3.0 and PCIe

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Library Support, Glibc and Alternatives SDK Deployment and Support

Course Schedule Day 3

Testing and Debug of Embedded Linux BSPs

Course Schedule Day 2

Debugging

Kernel Debug and Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump The Linux Test Project (LTP) Performance Tuning Embedded Linux BSPs Virtualization

GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger Other Debug and Test Tools An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Advanced Debug with printk and syslogd

System-Level Debug

Measuring Embedded Linux BSP Performance

System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and sys Filesystems Advanced Logging Methods KGDB and KDB Crash Dumps

Debugging Embedded Linux Systems

Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations BootLoader Optimizations Boot Time Measurements Effective Memory and Flash Usage Filesystem Performance Measurement Some Ideas on Performance Measurement

Configuring Embedded Linux

Config Methods Config Syntax Adding Code to the Linux Kernel

Booting Embedded Linux

Processor Startup Initial Functions The initcalls Using __init Functions NFS Booting

Root File Systems

RAMdisk Booting with initrd RAMdisk Booting with initramfs initrd vs initramfs Root File System Development Busybox Development Building a RAMdisk for an initrd Building a RAMdisk for an initramfs Flash File System Development

The Original UNIX Device Driver Model

The fops and file structs The inode and dentry structs Major and Minor Numbers Embedding Channel Information Deferring Work The /proc Filesystem Configuring the Device Driver A Simulated Device Driver Modularization Revisited Course Schedule Day 4

The Evolution of a New Driver Model The Initial Object-Oriented Approach Platform Devices and Drivers A Generic Subsystem Model

The Generic Subsystem Model in Detail

Subsystem Registration The Probe and Init Functions The Show and Store Functions User Access via the /sys Filesystem Configuring the New Device Driver

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The udev Linux Application

Wireless Device Drivers (WiFi, WLAN) Bluetooth and BlueZ

Comparing the Two Driver Models Infrared and IrDA Cellular from 2G to 5G The Flattened Device Tree (FDT) Drivers in User Space openBoot and its Effect on Embedded Linux Accessing I/O and Memory Regions The Device Tree Script (dts) File User Mode SCSI, USB and I2C The Device Tree Compiler (dtc) UIO The Device Tree Blob (dtb) File High-Speed Interconnects Building a dtb File PCIe iSCSI Infiniband

Hybrid Device Drivers FibreChannel Other fops Functions Debugging Device Drivers The Need for Ioctl kdb, kgdb and JTAG Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump

Linux Device Driver Subsystems Kernel Profiling Direct Connect Device Drivers User Mode Linux Performance Tuning Device Drivers Serial/Console Drivers, I2C & SPI Real-Time Clocks and Watchdogs

Some Final Recommendations GPIO and the Pinmux Flash MTDs and Direct Memory Access Lecturer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO USB, Power and CPU Management of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer EngiVideo and Audio PCI and VME neering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, Block Devices RAMdisk and Flash Filesystems he has held various positions at LynuxWorks, TilMMCs and SD Cards era, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Com Network Device Drivers puter. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based software development tools, training and consultMAC and PHY Device Drivers ing services for the embedded systems market. net_device and net_device_stats Network Device Initialization Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Friday, November 3, 2017 Device Discovery and Dynamic Initialization Network Interface Registration Payment received by November 1 Network Interface Service Functions IEEE Members $450 Receiving and Transmitting Packets Non-members $490 Notifier Chains and Device Status Notification Course Schedule Day 5

Unwired Device Drivers

Payment received after November 1 IEEE Members $490 Non-members $525

http://ieeeboston.org/embedded-linux-board-support-packages-device-drivers-fall-2017

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Writing Agile User Story and Acceptance Test Requirements Cut Creep Overruns, Disappointment, and Embarrassment Date & Time:

Tuesday, December 12; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (7.5 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Everyone complains that poor requirements are the major cause of project problems. Yet, like the weather, nobody does much about it, at least not effectively. Traditional approaches advocate writing voluminous requirements documents that too often don’t seem to help much and may even contribute to difficulties. Agile goes to the opposite extreme, relying on brief requirements in the form of threeline user stories that fit on the front an index card and a few user story acceptance criteria that fit on the card’s back. Surprise, as Mark Twain noted, in some ways it’s even harder to write Agile’s brief requirements effectively. This interactive workshop reveals reasons user stories and their acceptance tests can fall short of their hype, explains critical concepts needed for effectiveness, and uses a real case to provide participants guided practice writing and evaluating user stories and their acceptance criteria/tests.

* Difficulties that still afflict requirements in Agile projects and why they persist. * Writing more effective user stories and acceptance criteria/tests.

* What else is necessary to produce working software that provides real value.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for product owners, analysts, developers, and other Agile (and other) project team members who are or should be involved in defining requirements.

AGILE, USER STORY FUNDAMENTALS

Agile Manifesto’s relevant points

Characterization of traditional approaches

Waterfall and big up-front requirements

Agile’s sprints and backlogs alternative

Agile project team roles

User story “As a <role>…” (Card) PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:

User story acceptance criteria (Confirmation) Estimating user story size * Major sources of poor requirements that

Splitting and refining cause defects, rework, and cost/time overruns.

Prioritizing and allocating to backlogs/sprint Constructing/implementing (Conversations) * How Agile user stories and their acceptance

Reviewing, retrospectives criteria/tests address these issues.

Grooming backlog and reprioritizing

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REQUIREMENTS ARE REQUIREMENTS— OR MAYBE NOT

User stories are backlog items, features

Chicken and egg relation to use cases

Issues and inconsistencies

Business vs. product/system requirements

“Levels Model” of requirements

Other mistaken presumptions

Requirements overview

Where user stories should fit, do fit instead

Conversation conundrum WRITING MORE SUITABLE USER STORIES

Problem Pyramid™ tool to get on track

Exercise: Using the Problem Pyramid™

Exercise: Business Requirement User Stories

Issues identifying requirements

Product owner and business analyst roles

Project team participation

Dictating vs. discovering

Data gathering and analysis

Planning an effective interview

Controlling with suitable questions

Then a miracle occurs…

AND USER STORY ACCEPTANCE TESTS

Missed and unclear criteria

Turning criteria into tests, issues

How many tests are really needed

Test design techniques

Checklists and guidelines

Decision trees, decision tables

Boundary testing

Testing is main means to control risk

Defects and new user stories

Testing that user story focus misses

Reactive vs. proactive risk analysis

Given, when, then format

Exercise: Write User Story Acceptance Criteria Exercise: Design their Tests Exercise: Review Your User Stories/Tests Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Tuesday, December 5, 2017 Payment received by Nov. 28 IEEE Members $220 Non-members $245 Payment received after Nov. 28 IEEE Members $245 Non-members $265

http://ieeeboston.org/writing-agile-user-story-acceptance-test-requirements-2

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Risk Management Methods for Test Projects Make Sure the Most Important Testing Is Done in Limited Available Time Date & Time:

Thursday, December 14; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (7.5 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Testing is our primary means of reducing risks related to systems and software. All testing is risk-based in that there are more potential tests than we have time and resources to run, so we choose those that address higher risks. The difficulty is adequately identifying the potential risks, for which a number of structured techniques are described. Risk management involves obtaining, directing, and controlling resources for continuously planning, strategizing, identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, preventing, responding to, mitigating, monitoring, controlling, and reporting risk. Key types of risks and identification approaches are distinguished. Powerful Proactive Testing™ techniques are demonstrated that enhance conventional reactive testing risk analysis to enable testing higher risks not only more but earlier.

Exercises aid learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical methods to realistic examples.

Participants will learn: • The elements of risk and risk response, and their relation to software development and testing.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for analysts, designers, programmers, testers, auditors, users, and managers who rely on, plan, oversee, and/or carry out testing of software products.

1 NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF RISK

Murphy’s Law; O’Brien’s Law

Relation of risk to software and testing

Classical risk management

Impact and probability risk elements

Classical risk mitigation, contingency plans

Costs, ease of detecting, controlling vs. harm

Quantifying qualitative risk, tricks and traps

Types, classifications of risks

Threats, vulnerabilities, triggers

Risk identification analysis methods

Business, functional, and operational risks

Direct and indirect forms of injury

Management and technical risks

Effects vs. causes risk identification

Monitoring, controlling, reporting risks

• Importance of distinguishing business, manage- 2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT RISKS Most frequently encountered risks ment, functional, and technical risk causes and ef- fects.

Changing requirements and scope creep

Lack of management support, priorities • Alternative methods for identifying, analyzing, clas- Typically unrecognized interrelationships sifying, and prioritizing the several types of risks.

Features/quality, resources, schedule risks

Software risks--or just poor management • Proactive Testing™ methods that enhance conven- Sizing implications for software QA/testing tional reactive testing risk identification, response.

Traditional checklists for project managers

Evaluating risk factor checklists usefulness • Monitoring, evaluating, adjusting, and reporting on Software risk taxonomy risk activities, findings, and results.

Monitoring and managing risk as a project

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3 CONVENTIONAL RISK ANALYSIS

Testing riskier features, components more

Costs, additional testing resources vs. fixed

System, development practices checklists

Design analysis vs. prioritizing test cases

Common subjective risk judgment methods

Rating vs. ranking, setting objective criteria

Reporting, gaining agreement on risks 4 PROACTIVE RISK-BASED TESTING

Why typical risk-based testing is reactive

Proactive Testingâ&#x201E;˘ Life Cycle

Structured model of test planning

Multiple levels, points of risk analysis

Prioritization demands knowing the choices

Project-level proactive risk analysis

Identifying overlooked project-specific risks

Refocusing on tests that reduce the key risks

Letting testing drive development

Gaining user, manager, developer support

Identifying and analyzing lower-level risks

Differentiating user and technical views Risk analysis in test designs and test cases Risks of not testing some things Metrics to monitor effectiveness, efficiency Anticipating and measuring operational risks Risk management roles and responsibilities Reporting risk status, expected and actual Categorizing actuals, improving over time

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Thursday, December 7, 2017

Payment received by Nov. 30 IEEE Members $220 Non-members $245 Payment received after Nov. 30 IEEE Members $245 Non-members $265

http://ieeeboston.org/risk-management-methods-test-projects/

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Developing Reusable Test Designs Be an Instant Expert--Run More, and More Thorough, Tests in Less Time Date & Time:

Friday, December 15; 8:30AM - 5:00PM (7.5 hours of instruction!)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Would you like to be an instant testing expert, able to start testing effectively in new situations without delay?

And would you like to spend more of your time running tests and less of your time creating the tests? Reusable test designs are a little-known but powerful test planning/design tool that make it possible for you to run more effective test cases in less time. This interactive seminar workshop shows you how to apply a systematic structured Proactive Testing™ approach that first enables you to design much more thorough tests than traditional methods. Then, you’ll discover how to convert your test designs into reusable test designs that you can apply instantly in new situations. You’ll develop several reusable test designs in class and be ready to add more to your toolkit back on the job. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to an actual case.

Participants will learn: • How test designs fit into the overall test planning structure and provide special advantages • • • • •

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for testers, managers, analysts, designers, programmers, auditors, and users who plan, oversee, and/ or carry out testing of software products.

PROACTIVE TEST DESIGN BENEFITS

Proactive vs traditional reactive testing

Proactive Testing™ Life Cycle advantages

IEEE Standard for Test Documentation

Often-overlooked key to proper prioritizing

Systematic drill-down strategy

Master and detailed test plans

Test design specifications

Test case specifications

How taking time to structure saves time

Structuring to make test sets manageable

Facilitating reconstruction of test data

Taking off the blinders to allow selectivity

Re-using instead of rebuilding test designs

Instant expertise for testing new situations

IDENTIFYING NEEDED TEST DESIGNS

Functional (black box) testing Systematic reliably repeatable methods for identify- Three-level approach to functional testing ing test designs to test a given system.

Keys for thoroughness

Breaking down to manageable pieces Checklists and guidelines that enable you to spot Functionality Matrix technique the conditions traditional methods overlook.

Use case perspective

Technical software actions Converting your project-specific test designs into re- Test design specifications that are needed usable test designs you can use for other systems.

DESIGNING TESTS MORE THOROUGHLY Applying reusable test designs to jumpstart your How designing adds thoroughness testing with instant expertise and effectiveness.

Traditional test design still misses a lot Quickly and reliably selecting the subset of test Focused brainstorming for a better start cases suitable for scale and risk.

Checklists and guidelines to fill the gaps

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Tests based on data formats Coverage of data and process models Decision trees and tables Concerns common to all types of testing Equivalence classes and partitioning Ranges and boundary testing GUI and navigation issues Often-overlooked other dimensions to test Formal/informal test design specifications Extracting the reusable elements Enhancing with system-specific tests Link to driving effective automated tests

SPECIFYING (REUSABLE) TEST CASES

Translating test designs into test cases

Selecting scaled subset based on risk

Reusable test case specifications

Other essential test case component Finding and creating test data Test script and matrix formats Simple and sophisticated automation

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Friday, December 8, 2017 Payment received by Dec. 1 IEEE Members $220 Non-members $245 Payment received after Dec. 1 IEEE Members $245 Non-members $265

http://ieeeboston.org/developing-reusable-test-designs/

Call for Course Speakers/Organizers IEEE’s core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

The IEEE Boston Section, its dedicated volunteers, and over 8,500 members are committed to fulfilling this core purpose to the local technology community through chapter meetings, conferences, continuing education short courses, and professional and educational activities.

Twice each year a committee of local IEEE volunteers meet to consider course topics for its continuing education program. This committee is comprised of practicing engineers in various technical disciplines.

In an effort to expand these course topics for our members and the local technical community at large, the committee is publicizing this CALL FOR COURSE SPEAKERS AND ORGANIZERS. The Boston Section is one of the largest and most technically divers sections of the IEEE. We have over 20 active chapters and affinity groups.

If you have an expertise that you feel might be of interest to our members, please submit that to our online course proposal form on the section’s website (www.ieeeboston.org) and click on the course proposal link (direct course proposal form link is http://ieeeboston.org/course-proposals/ .

Alternatively, you may contact the IEEE Boston Section office at ieeebostonsection@gamil.com or 781 245 5405.

• Honoraria can be considered for course lecturers • Applications oriented, practical focused courses are best (all courses should help attendees expand their knowledge based and help them do their job better after completing a course • Courses should be no more than 2 full days, or 18 hours for a multi-evening course • Your course will be publicized to over 10,000 local engineers • You will be providing a valuable service to your profession • Previous lecturers include: Dr. Eli Brookner, Dr. Steven Best, Colin Brench, to name a few.